A kind of pulley or tackle for hoisting heavy objects.

A cylindrical rod or bar provided with grooves so as to act as a screw; spec. that by which the platen of a hand printing-press is lowered and raised.

A machine for hoisting or hauling weights. Obsolete. rare.

a device (as a jack or clamp) operated by turning a screw or wheel by hand.

A crab, n.1 7 used at sea. Obsolete.

An iron contrivance for raising heavy blocks of stone. Also called lewisson, n.

A machine or apparatus for hoisting or hauling heavy weights: the name being originally applied to a… A portable machine for raising weights…

A circular frame of wood, metal, or other hard substance (sometimes in the form of a solid disc, but… wheel and axle (also †axis), as one of the…

A frame or cage into which a wagon, truck, or tub is run, and which is then revolved so as to invert the wagon and discharge its contents.

An apparatus attached to an external wall of a warehouse and used for raising or lowering goods. Obsolete.

Appositive, as outrigger hoist, outrigger sail, etc.

= lewis, n.1

A device or apparatus for tipping or tilting; spec. for tipping and emptying coal-wagons.

a hook with a threaded shank which can be screwed into an object to facilitate its lifting (see also lifting, adj.).

Any of various mechanisms or pieces of equipment incorporating a power source and used for lifting heavy weights.

(a) a chain linked to a bucket; (b) a line of persons formed to pass buckets of water or sand to a conflagration.

a crab or windlass designed for attachment to a wall or post.